Machines could be seen in the village this past week digging along CSX’s rights-of-way and in the area of the Voorheesville Post Office between its parking lot and the railroad tracks, where a group of trees were felled. 

Altamont’s tax rate for next year is set to increase from $2.14 per $1,000 of assessed value to $2.18 per $1,000. 

“If this were coming in for an initial approval, we would have to look at the noise implications for SEQR. We would have to try and remedy those noise implications, and that’s effectively what we're trying to do,” village attorney Rich Reilly said on Feb. 27. “And for an environmental project, we don’t actually have to own it. It just has to be sponsored by us.”

During its March 13 meeting, the town board agreed to an April 10 public hearing for proposed Local Law E of 2023: Regulating Battery Energy Storage Systems and to a special meeting to present the town’s new resource inventory project. 

Project applicant David Zhang was before the Guilderland Planning Board at its March 13 meeting with a proposal to reconfigure 1975 Western Ave.

Firefighters in Albany County number 1,680 volunteers and 369 career, with another nearly 400 non-firefighting volunteers, like fire police, accounted for by federal data. 

The board voted down Guilderland Live Poultry and Grocery’s request 4 to 1.

Guilderland, in a letter to retirees last month, said it would be changing their insurance provider from Humana to UnitedHealth.

The incident occurred on CSX’s tracks crossing over North Main Street, near Grove and Prospect streets.